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Summary

Stacked on #55. The branch contains the commits of #55 and of the pull requests before it, so the last 1 commit is new here.

This pull request moves the package versions of the two projects into one file, Directory.Packages.props (central package management). It requires #55: it edits the PackageReference items of the SDK-style project files that #55 creates. The matching update of the instructions is part of the last pull request of the chain (#69), because the instructions live in the files that #54 adds. The code does not change, and NuGet resolves the same packages as before.

Chain, changes, things to know and verification

Chain

This pull request is part of a chain of small pull requests that all target main. After #53 the chain has two branches that do not depend on each other: the AI agent files (#54) and the modernization of the build (#55 to #58). The last pull request (#69) merges both and updates the instructions, which live in the files of the AI branch. The branch of each pull request contains the commits of the ones it is stacked on, so GitHub lists those commits here until they are merged. Merge in this order and review only the commits that are new in each pull request:

1. Switch the solution to the .slnx format #53 – Switch the solution to the .slnx format (first in the chain, no dependencies)
2. Add instructions, skills and MCP configuration for AI coding agents #54 – Add instructions, skills and MCP configuration for AI coding agents (stacked on Switch the solution to the .slnx format #53)
3. Convert the projects to the SDK style #55 – Convert the projects to the SDK style (stacked on Switch the solution to the .slnx format #53)
4. Move the package versions to central package management #56 – Move the package versions to central package management (stacked on Convert the projects to the SDK style #55) – this pull request
5. Set the C# language version to 14 #57 – Set the C# language version to 14 (stacked on Move the package versions to central package management #56)
6. Build with dotnet build #58 – Build with dotnet build (stacked on Set the C# language version to 14 #57)
7. Update the instructions for the SDK-style projects, central package management, C# 14 and dotnet build #69 – Update the instructions for the SDK-style projects, central package management, C# 14 and dotnet build (stacked on Build with dotnet build #58 and Add instructions, skills and MCP configuration for AI coding agents #54)

Changes

• Directory.Packages.props holds one PackageVersion for each of the 19 packages, in three groups: the packages of the extension, the dependencies that the projects name explicitly, and the test packages. The two projects name the packages only. The versions are the ones the projects had; where both projects used a package they used the same version, so one entry replaces two.
• The file is added to the solution items.

Things to know

• A version is changed in one place now, and a project can still deviate with VersionOverride. Central package management needs NuGet 6.2 or later, which the build tools of this repository have.
• nuget.config (the package source mapping) is unchanged.

Verification

• The resolved packages are the same: project.assets.json lists the same 154 libraries for the extension and the same 162 for the tests, with the same entries for net481. In Debug and Release the references, the 26 distinct warnings, the VSIX entries and the fingerprints of both assemblies are identical to the previous commit, and the 4 tests pass (the MSBuild of Visual Studio 2026 18.12).
• CI: the workflows of this repository wait for the approval of a maintainer on a pull request from a fork, so the commit ran in a fork on a clean windows-2022 runner: Build builds the solution and runs the 4 tests, which pass. As on the unchanged main (run), the step Publish Test Results fails there: the third-party action EnricoMi/publish-unit-test-result-action finds no Python interpreter on the image. This pull request neither causes nor changes it.

🤖 Generated with Claude Code

• After the chain was re-cut so that this pull request no longer contains the files of Add instructions, skills and MCP configuration for AI coding agents #54, the tip was built again locally with the MSBuild of Visual Studio 2026 (no errors, the same distinct warnings as the pull request before it).